"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 ...

Staring at the sun—a close (but safe) look at our home star Staring at the sun ... Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the ...

According to the team, the gravitational pull of our solar system's planets and passing ... at some point but that's an extremely challenging project. "One potential way to detect the Oort spiral ...

This journey through a dense region of space could have compressed the heliosphere, the protective bubble surrounding our solar system, and increased the influx of interstellar dust, potentially ...

However, future astronomical projects, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory ... formation within the Oort cloud marks a significant milestone in our understanding of the solar system’s outer regions. As ...

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky. Located just 4.3 light-years ...

Everyone knows about the Solar System, and the planets that make it up. They’re in space, orbiting the Sun, in an order we all at least used to be able to recite. But it was not always so.

"We know from our own solar system that giant planets bring a little ... DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adb1e9 The new interstellar activity model also projects as many as 10 meteors originating from Alpha ...